MIAMI – Thirty-nine-year-old former charter school coach and school security guard Yuniesky Ramirez Martinez is on trial for allegedly filming two students while they had sex and pressuring a student into having sex with him.
A 17-year-old student at Downtown Doral Charter Upper School came forward with the allegation in 2023.
The jury heard audio of her interview with police, where she says Ramirez Martinez, then 37, approached her and her ex-boyfriend in a hallway on Valentine’s Day and encouraged them to have sex with each other in a classroom.
She claims Ramirez Martinez watched through a window as the teens engaged in sex, and the state says he was filming them. The student later told police he pressured her into getting intimate with him.
What followed, she said, were days of harassment, claiming Ramirez Martinez would pull her out of class and threaten her with blackmail if she refused his advances.
The defense argues there’s no evidence of what the state alleges and questioned an officer who interviewed the teen about what they say is a lack of video.
Ramirez Martinez is facing charges that include offenses against students by an authority figure, promoting a sexual performance by a child, soliciting to engage in a sexual act with a child and video voyeurism.